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broadest part. The baleen (or whalebone) was 3 feet in length. From the 
snout to the eyes 13 feet 2 inches — ^from the angle of the mouth to the pec- 
toral swimmers 6 feet 5 inches; these were 10 feet long, and 2^ feet where 
broadest. Dorsal fin 3 feet long, 2 feet high, and distant from the middle of 
the tail 12 feet 10 inches. From the lower jaw to the navel, the skin on the 
belly was regularly folded. Tail 184 feet wide. This individual had been 
known to the fishermen for twenty years, in its pursuits after the herring, 
and termed by them Hollie P'lke^ in consequence of the dorsal fin having been 
perforated by a bullet. 
The animal killed in Scalpa Bay, November 14. 1808, of which Mr Scores- 
by gives a figure and description from the notes of the late James Watson, 
Esq. of Orkney, seems, from its dimensions, to have been a young animal. 
The remarkable gibbosity of the lower jaw expressed in the figure, and which 
corresponds tolerably well with Sibbald’s delineation, leads me to consider it 
as the Musculus. “ Its length was 17| feet; circumference 20. Length from 
the snout to the dorsal fin 12| feet; from the snout to the pectoral fins 
5 feet ; from the snout to the eye 3| feet ; and from the snout to the blow- 
holes 3 feet. Pectoral fins 2 feet long, and 7 inches broad ; dorsal fin 15 
inches lo rg by 9 inches high ; tail 16 inches long by 4| feet broad. Largest 
whalebone about 6 inches.” 
According to Low (Nat. Hist. Oread, p. 158.), they are seen in the Ork- 
ney seas in July and August, when herring and mackerel are abundant. And 
Dr Walker states (Essays, p. 529.), that they yearly frequent Loch Fyne 
during the herring season. 
45. B. Boops. Sliarp-lipped Whale.- — Snout pointed. 
De Balgena tripinni qum rostrum acutum habet, et plicas in ventre, Sibh, 
Phal. 68. tab. i. lowest figure — B. B. Linn. Syst. i. 106 — B. rostrata, 
Hunter., Phil. Trans. 1787, p. 373. tab. xx — Fin-Whale, Neill., Wern. 
j Mem. i. p. 201. 
j The specimen described by Sibbald, Avhich came ashore in November 1690 
I near Burntisland in the Frith of Forth, was 46 feet in length, and 20 in cir- 
! cumference. The pectoral swimmers were 5 feet from the eye, and the dor- 
i sal fin 84 from the tail. From the navel to the snout 24 feet. Breadth of 
I the tail 9 feet. The lower ja,w, near the middle, was 4 feet in breadth, with 
! a thickened margin. Tongue 5 feet long, and near the root 3 feet in breadth. 
’ The blow-holes were 6 feet 8 inches from the snout. The length of the gape 
! 10 feet. Eyes 3 feet from the blov*^-holes. The swimmers were 5 feet long, 
li and 14 broad. 
The individual examined by Hunter was caught on the Doggerbank, 
: and was 17 feet long. Upper jaw, from eye to eye, 1 foot 8 inches; lower 
I jaw 2 feet 6 inches. It had 7 vertebrae in the neck, 12 which may be reckoned 
|i to the back, and 27 to the tail, making 46 in the whole. The sternum was 
; flat, and of one bone, to which the first rib was articulated. There were 300 
,j laminae of baleen, the greatest length of which was 5 inches, and the two jaws 
i| met every where along their surface. The stomach consisted of five bags, 
j the two first being the largest. The duodenum had longitudinal rugae or 
j| valves. Furnished with a caecum. In the stomach were found the remains 
|l of the dog-fish. Tongue little raised, having scarcely any lateral edges. 
In a male fin-whale examined by Mr Neill, and which came ashore at Alloa 
j on the banks of the F orth, the length was 43 feet, and the greatest circumfe- 
j rence 20. Swimmers 5 feet long, and 1 broad. Dorsal fin 24 feet high, and 
|; nearly of the same breadth at the base, seated nearly over the vent, and about 
1 ! 12 feet from the extremity of the tail, the last being 10 feet broad. Under 
! jaw 14 feet long, 3 inches longer than the upper^ and a little wider. There 
were about 300 laminse of baleen on each side, the largest 18 inches long. 
Distance from eye to eye 7 feet. Mr Neill mentions having examined a MS. 
account of another whale, by the late Dr Walker, which was cast ashore at 
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